Yep. There won't be any snow or ground frost, or threat there of, when we start digging around first of May. Been in Royalton about 4 weeks now, another 6 will go by just as fast. Another 6 more I'll be in a new house.

Logged

Pre-commercial thinning pays off.

'If she wants to play lumberjack, she's going to have to learn to handle her end of the log.'Dirty Harry

As it turned out, I am waiting here until the 21 of May for the roads to reopen (annual spring break up closures) so we can haul full loads of cement. One of these nights this week I will meet with my excavator man and cement man to show them the layout for the buildings on the site. Should be scratching ground next week.

Good luck!!Back bedroom we hit rock. And I do mean rock. Every was going good until I heard the noise of a big rock. We did not want to move the angle of the house because of the view. And if we did,would we hit another rock?? Blasting boys took care of that problem and $500 too. They must of been drinking coffee at the shop. They was about 45 minutes away and they was at my house in just about that time. Lucky!

I think everything should be fine as far as rocks and ledge. We don't have real big rocks as a rule, there might be one like a wheel barrel on occasion. Ledge is one of them things you might not hit for 20 feet, 8 feet or 2 feet. Pretty sure it is good and deep here though. Time will tell.

Logged

Pre-commercial thinning pays off.

'If she wants to play lumberjack, she's going to have to learn to handle her end of the log.'Dirty Harry

That little bush there, in the view from the north, that is a striped maple. I planted that because of the rather big leaves and the stripes in the bark. Some are a lime green, others turn red in the bark then after a few years they turn real dark green with the stripes as well. I think the last time or two I was up at Jeff's stomping grounds he and I both sorta kept an eye out for them when visiting the parks. I have mentioned before that the stems might make an interesting chair project. I have seen the Amish in northern Maine make rockers with bark left on them. They use ash though. This is by Smyrna. I think there is also a fella near Easton making rockers, not been there except to drive by when the ground was turning to soup this spring, so didn't stop in. The road he is on is the Bangor Road. It runs past the Easton School and is sort of a back road that also runs down to Mars Hill and comes out by the town garage, although by then it branches off onto another road or two coming from Easton. Anyway, a bit of a meandering tale to say that I intend to visit and see if I can find a rocker sometime this summer.

Logged

Pre-commercial thinning pays off.

'If she wants to play lumberjack, she's going to have to learn to handle her end of the log.'Dirty Harry